Commercial & Contracts Manager (Shanghai-based)
Location: Shanghai
Position: Full time
Reporting to: Master of Coin; dotted line to The Visionary
The Orangeblowfish is seeking a Commercial & Contracts Manager to lead the commercial governance, contract management, risk management and commercial compliance across the business. The role acts is the key point for all commercial matters and partners with legal, creative project teams and agency leadership to protect company interests, improve commercial processes and support sustainable growth
Responsibilities:
- Commercial Governance: Own commercial governance frameworks, review commercial documentation, and ensure compliance with company policies.
- Contract Management & Negotiation: Review, draft and negotiate client, vendor and consultant agreements. Identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies. Identify contractual issues and bottlenecks and escalate as required.
- Proposal & Pricing Governance: Review fee proposals, scopes of work and pricing structures to ensure commercial viability and margin protection.
- Commercial Operations: Leads the overall commercial process including client and vendor contract pricing, execution, variation management, invoicing requirements and commercial reporting.
- Risk Management & Compliance: Maintain contract review standards, manage contractual risks and support compliance initiatives.
- Process Improvement: Develop and/or improve checklists, commercial templates, workflows and approval processes to enhance efficiency and reduce risk. This includes identifying recurring contractual issues and recommend improvements to internal processes and maintaining a database of key contractual deviations, customer positions, and lessons learned.
- Leadership & Stakeholder Management: Advise internal project teams and leadership on commercial matters and provide contract guidance.
The Successful Candidate:
- Around 5+ years of experience in commercial management, contract management, legal operations, procurement, or a related field.
- A legal background is highly preferred.
- Strong contract negotiation and risk assessment capabilities.
- High attention to detail, with strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.
- A good understanding of contract terms, with the ability to identify potential risks.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, in particular Word and Excel.
- Able to handle confidential information with discretion and integrity.
- Reliable and proactive, able to manage multiple tasks and deliver to deadlines under pressure.
Interested?
Apply below and remember to send us your CV (max 2 pages in English), along with 10 of your best art and design works.
The Orangeblowfish will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in China. This position does not qualify for relocation assistance.
Junior Graphic Designer (Shanghai or Sydney)
Location: Shanghai or Sydney
Position: Full time
Reporting to: Idea Inker
Responsibilities:
- Take briefs as part of a wider creative team and help generate ideas to present back to the our senior creatives
- Have a good knowledge and the ability to execute a range of different design styles and layouts
- Coordinate with project leads to determine their requirements, timescale and budget
- Develop concepts, graphics and layouts, including making decisions that are on brief
- Keep project team lead and senior creatives up to date on progress
- Listen and act on feedback, and explain the rationale behind graphic design decisions
- Review final layouts and suggest improvements if required.
- Liaise with external production partners to ensure deadlines are met and material is printed or presented to the highest quality.
- Coordinate and prepare final artwork with printers and suppliers as required
- Image research and documentation as required
The Successful Candidate:
- Must be bilingual – fluent in Chinese and English. Native Chinese is preferred.
- At least 2-4 years working experience in a graphic design role, preferably in an international agency
- Strong background in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
- Strong layout skills (colour, typography and composition)
- Can work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, plus proofing skills
- Ability to prioritise projects, as well as work under pressure to meet deadlines, and across multiple projects
- Good communication skills, self-motivated and takes initiative
- Have a good understanding of print media, digital media, branding and interactive design
- A willingness to stay current: keeping skills and knowledge update to industry trends and software
- Think proactively on behalf of the agency, considering new design/digital initiatives, trends and tools
Interested?
Apply below and remember to send us your CV (max 2 pages in English), along with 10 of your best art and design works.
The Orangeblowfish will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in China or Australia. This position does not qualify for relocation assistance.
Marketing Intern (Sydney)
Location: Sydney
Position: Project-based
Reporting to: The Visionary
Our Sydney office is looking for a marketing intern who is interested in working with one of the best creative teams in APAC.
Duties include:
- Participating in brainstorming sessions for creative and branding projects.
- Assisting with creating compelling content to showcase our award-winning client case studies and other latest news worth sharing.
- Supporting the team with community management and brand building across the various branded platforms.
- Conducting market research, online news monitoring, listening and analytics tracking including seeing what posts do well and what we can do better.
The ideal candidate will be required to have:
- Bilingual proficiency: Fluent in Chinese and English – written and spoken.
- Be organised and able to handle multiple requests with grace.
- Have a professional manner and some exposure to working with international, cross-cultural and remote teams.
- Social media experience and interest is a plus.
What do we offer?
- A fun and creative working environment
- The opportunity to learn new things, and work on projects that inspire you
- A fabulous team who loves what they do and has a great sense of humour
Apply below using our contact form.
The Orangeblowfish will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Australia and based in Sydney. This position does not qualify for relocation assistance.
Project Executive (Shanghai-based)
Location: Shanghai
Position: Full Time
Reporting to: Idea Inker
The Orangeblowfish is looking for the next super star to join our Project team in Shanghai.
Duties include:
Project Management
- Building, managing, and meeting project deadlines.
- Maintaining seamless communication between clients and internal teams, and quickly identifying bottlenecks, resolving and escalating matters to senior team members.
- Researching and collating information at early stage for strategy and creative development.
- Proofreading all documents for accuracies and errors before any work is released to client.
- Identifying and liaising with all third-party suppliers and production partners for all projects, and negotiating pricing and contract terms as required.
- Assisting in other tasks as directed by Agency senior team members
Client Management
- Independently managing client expectations to foster effectiveness and productivity.
- Coordinating internal and client meetings to brief all involved including project project, client submission documents, priorities, challenges and obtaining client feedback and/or approval.
- Building and fostering client relationship and exploring new business opportunities with existing clients.
The ideal candidate will be required to have:
- Be organised and able to handle multiple requests with grace.
- Have strong communication and logical reasoning skills.
- Language requirements: Fluent in Chinese and English – written and spoken.
- Demonstrated experience in problem solving.
- Able to deal with working under pressure whilst delivering high quality results to meet client and team expectations.
- Solid reputation when it comes to servicing clients.
- Experience working with international, cross-cultural and remote teams is a plus.
What do we offer?
- A fun and creative working environment
- The opportunity to learn new things, and work on projects that inspire you
- A fabulous team who loves what they do and has a great sense of humour
Apply below using our contact form.
The Orangeblowfish will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in China. This position does not qualify for relocation assistance.
Project Team Coordinator (Shanghai-based)
Location: Shanghai
Position: Full Time
Reporting to: Project Powerhouse
The Orangeblowfish is looking for a Project Team Coordinator to join our team to help support all aspects of clients’ projects, as assigned.
These include:
- Assisting the project team with research, daily communications with stakeholders and keeping a tab of client deliverables.
- Updating project timelines, client reports, meeting agendas and meeting minutes.
- Being the daily point of contact for communication with vendors for assigned projects. This includes following up on quotations, deliverables and delivery schedules.
- Recognising risks and applying creative problem skills to help mitigate risks. Escalating to project lead as required.
- Assisting in other tasks as required.
The ideal candidate will be required to have:
- Be organised and able to handle multiple requests with grace.
- Have strong communication and logical reasoning skills.
- Language requirements: Fluent in Chinese and English – written and spoken.
- Demonstrated experience in problem solving.
- Able to deal with working under pressure whilst delivering high quality results to meet client and team expectations.
- Solid reputation when it comes to servicing clients.
- Experience working with international, cross-cultural and remote teams is a plus.
What do we offer?
- A fun and creative working environment
- The opportunity to learn new things, and work on projects that inspire you
- A fabulous team who loves what they do and has a great sense of humour
Apply below using our contact form.
The Orangeblowfish will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in China. This position does not qualify for relocation assistance.